Given the primary Training role of the Faculty, it first defined ICUs and HDUs and their requisite associated training structures and functions in its Periodic Accreditation Visitation record.
It is regularly updated and the current version is in everyday use by the Accreditation Visitation teams of the Faculty’s Examination and Training committee. Its focus is on the structural and functional facilities pertaining to postgraduate training in ICM.
The Faculty and the ICSI have maintained an ongoing commitment to developing ICUs and ICM in Ireland and it proposed and strongly supported the commissioning of the ‘Prospectus study’ by the HSE. This report Towards Excellence in Critical Care – REVIEW OF ADULT CRITICAL CARE SERVICES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (2009) and its outline of the national priorities for ICM is strongly endorsed by the JFICMI and it also endorses the role to the HSE’s National Critical Care Programme (NCCP) in its endeavours to implement its recommendations.
The Faculty and the Intensive Care Society of Ireland (ICSI), have also published a broad-based Standards for Intensive Care services in Ireland which details the required elements and characteristics of ICUs in Ireland in accordance with the level of service provided by the ICU – level 1 to level 3 and 3s. A related Paediatric document is available in Paediatric Intensive Care.